O’Flynn: Creighton seeking attention

Developer Michael O’Flynn believed the main purpose of a speech given by Lucinda Creighton TD two years ago was not about the lack of independence of politicians but to seek attention for herself, the High Court heard yesterday.

He was under cross-examination on the second day of his defamation action against Ms Creighton, who made a speech at a summer school two years ago in which she said, among other things, that there can be no room in Fine Gael for “cute-hoor politics”.

She also said her party in government must be “much more than Fianna Fáil-light” and cannot condemn that party for entertaining developers in the Galway Races tent while on the other hand extending the “biscuit tin for contributions from high profile developers who are beholden to Nama”.